EP0901906B1 - Tête d'impression par jet d'encre avec filtre obtenu par ablation au laser amélioré - Google Patents

Tête d'impression par jet d'encre avec filtre obtenu par ablation au laser amélioré Download PDF

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EP0901906B1
EP0901906B1 EP19980304677 EP98304677A EP0901906B1 EP 0901906 B1 EP0901906 B1 EP 0901906B1 EP 19980304677 EP19980304677 EP 19980304677 EP 98304677 A EP98304677 A EP 98304677A EP 0901906 B1 EP0901906 B1 EP 0901906B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/17—Ink jet characterised by ink handling
    • B41J2/175—Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
    • B41J2/17563—Ink filters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/14—Structure thereof only for on-demand ink jet heads
    • B41J2/14016—Structure of bubble jet print heads
    • B41J2/14145—Structure of the manifold
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/14—Structure thereof only for on-demand ink jet heads
    • B41J2002/14403—Structure thereof only for on-demand ink jet heads including a filter
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1052—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
    • Y10T156/1056—Perforating lamina
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T156/1062—Prior to assembly
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to ink jet printers and, more particularly, to a thermal ink jet printhead having a filter over its ink inlet and a laser ablation fabrication process for forming the filter.
  • a typical thermally actuated drop-on-demand ink jet printing system uses thermal energy pulses to produce vapor bubbles in an ink-filled channel that expels droplets from the channel orifices of the printing system's printhead.
  • Such printheads have one or more ink-filled channels communicating at one end with a relatively small ink supply chamber (or reservoir) and having an orifice at the opposite end, also referred to as the nozzle.
  • a thermal energy generator usually a resistor, is located within the channels near the nozzle at a predetermined distance upstream therefrom. The resistors are individually addressed with a current pulse to momentarily vaporize the ink and form a bubble which expels an ink droplet.
  • a meniscus is formed at each nozzle under a slight negative pressure to prevent ink from weeping therefrom.
  • thermal ink jet printheads are formed by mating two silicon substrates.
  • One substrate contains an array of heater elements and associated electronics (and is thus referred to as a heater plate), while the second substrate is a fluid directing portion containing a plurality of nozzle-defining channels and an ink inlet for providing ink from a source to the channels (thus, this substrate is referred to as a channel plate).
  • the channel plate is typically fabricated by orientation dependent etching methods.
  • Droplet directionality of a droplet expelled from these printheads can be significantly influenced by extrinsic particles finding their way into the printhead channels.
  • ink inlets to the die modules, or substrates are much larger than the ink channels; hence, it is desirable to provide a filtering mechanism for filtering the ink at some point along the ink flow path from the ink manifold or manifold source to the ink channel. Any filtering technique should also minimize air entrapment in the ink flow path.
  • U.S. Patent 4,864,329 to Kneezel et al. discloses a thermal ink jet printhead having a flat filter placed over the inlet thereof by a fabrication process which laminates a wafer size filter to the aligned and bonded wafers containing a plurality of printheads.
  • the individual printheads are obtained by a sectioning operation, which cuts through the two or more bonded wafers and the filter.
  • the filter may be a woven mesh screen or preferably a nickel electroformed screen with predetermined pore size. Since the filter covers one entire side of the printhead, a relatively large contact area prevents delamination and enables convenient leak-free sealing.
  • Electroformed screen filters having pore size which is small enough to filter out particles of interest result in filters which are very thin and subject to breakage during handling or wash steps.
  • the preferred nickel embodiment is not compatible with certain inks resulting in filter corrosion.
  • the choice of materials is limited when using this technique. Woven mesh screens are difficult to seal reliably against both the silicon ink inlet and the corresponding opening in the ink manifold. Further, plating with metals such as gold to protect against corrosion is costly.
  • EP-A-0 675 000 discloses a thermal ink jet printhead having an ink filter structure integrally incorporated therein and operative to filter ink flowing into its internal ink receiving channels.
  • the filter structure comprises a plurality of micro filter passageways which are formed by a material removal process such as laser ablation.
  • an ink jet printhead having an ink inlet in one of its surfaces, a plurality of nozzles, individual channels connecting the nozzles to an internal ink supplying manifold, the manifold being supplied ink through said ink inlet, and selectively addressable heating elements for expelling ink droplets on demand, the improved ink jet printhead comprising:
  • a thin polymer film is ablated through a mask or screen to produce a fine array of small holes in the ink inlet areas.
  • the film is laminated to the channel substrate to form a filter over the ink inlet or inlets.
  • the substrate is then diced to form individual die printhead modules, each with an ink inlet or inlets having a filter.
  • the polymer film is first attached to the substrate followed by dicing, followed by small-hole laser ablation.
  • the laser-ablated filter is made as part of a tape seal joining the die module to a manifold in an ink supply cartridge.
  • the laser ablation process is controlled to produce tapered holes through the film.
  • Tapered holes enable the use of a thicker film with less flow impedance augmenting the strength of the filter to withstand handling and processing.
  • a method for fabricating a filter element to prevent contaminants from entering an ink supply inlet of an ink jet printhead comprising the steps of:
  • a thermal ink jet printhead 10 fabricated according to the teachings of the present invention is shown comprising channel plate 12 with laser-ablated filter 14 and heater plate 16 shown in dashed line.
  • a patterned film layer 18 is shown in dashed line having a material such as, for example, Riston ®, Vacrel ®, or polyimide, and is sandwiched between the channel plate and the heater plate.
  • the thick film layer is etched to remove material above each heating element 34, thus placing them in pits 26. Material is removed between the closed ends 21 of ink channels 20 and the reservoir 24, forming trench 38 placing the channels 20 into fluid communication with the reservoir 24.
  • droplets 13 are shown following trajectories 15 after ejection from the nozzles 27 in front face 29 of the printhead.
  • channel plate 12 is permanently bonded to heater plate 16 or to the patterned thick film layer 18 optionally deposited over the heating elements and addressing electrodes on the top surface 19 of the heater plate and patterned as taught in the above-mentioned U.S. Pat. No. 4,774,530.
  • the channel plate is silicon and the heater plate may be any insulative or semiconductive material as disclosed in U.S. Reissue Pat. No. 32,572 to Hawkins et al.
  • the illustrated embodiment of the present invention is described for an edge-shooter type printhead, but could readily be used for a roofshooter configured printhead (not shown) as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,864,329 to Kneezel et al., wherein the ink inlet is in the heater plate, so that the integral filter of the present invention could be fabricated in a similar manner.
  • Channel plate 12 of FIG. 1 contains an etched recess 24, shown in dashed line, in one surface which, when mated to the heater plate 16, forms an ink reservoir.
  • a plurality of identical parallel grooves 20, shown in dashed line and having triangular cross sections, are etched (using orientation dependent etching techniques) in the same surface of the channel plate with one of the ends thereof penetrating the front face 29.
  • the other closed ends 21 (FIG. 2) of the grooves are adjacent to the recess 24.
  • the open bottom of the reservoir in the channel plate, shown in FIG. 2, forms an ink inlet 25 and provides means for maintaining a supply of ink in the reservoir through a manifold from an ink supply source in an ink cartridge 22, partially shown in FIG. 2.
  • the cartridge manifold is sealed to the ink inlet by adhesive layer 23.
  • Filter 14 of the present invention has been fabricated, in a first embodiment, and as discussed below, by laser-ablating holes through a thin polymer film to form a fine filter and then adhesively bonding the filter to the fill hole side of channel plate 12 by, for example, the adhesive transfer method disclosed in U.S. Patent 4,678,529.
  • large diameter output beams are generated by excimer laser 42 and directed to a mask 44 having a plurality of holes 45, with total area sufficient to cover the ink inlet 25.
  • the holes can be closely packed with diameters as small as 2.5 microns.
  • the radiation passing through the mask 44 forms a plurality of tapered holes 46 (shown as holes 28 in filter 14 in FIG. 1) in polymer film 48 which, in a preferred embodiment, is Kapton, or other polymer films which have been selected for chemical compatibility with the inks to be used.
  • Ablated film 48 has thus been fabricated into filter 14 which can then be aligned with and laminated over ink inlet 25.
  • the filter size must be large enough to provide an adequate seal across inlet 25 with enough edge surface to allow adhesive layer 23 to be bonded to the edges. Additional filters are formed by a step and repeat process.
  • film 48 is 20 microns thick, holes 46 are 5 microns diameter with a 5° taper. (The tape is exaggerated in the Figures for descriptive purposes.)
  • the film is approximately the size of the channel wafer, and it contains a series of ablated holes corresponding to the ink inlets of the plurality of die on the wafers.
  • a tape seal 50 is used to seal the cartridge manifold to the ink inlet. Seal 50 is ablated by the above-described process to form the filter 14', as well as the outline of the seal. The tape seal is then aligned with inlet 25 and bonded to the top surface of channel plate 12.
  • polymer film 48' is first laminated to channel plate 12 and the wafer is diced into separate printheads. Each printhead is then positioned so that the channel plate top surface is aligned with the desired masking radiation pattern to fabricate filter 14.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 a variation of FIGS. 1 and 2 is shown in FIGS. 7 and 8.
  • exposure is accomplished using a first mask 52 placed between laser 42 and film 48.
  • Mask 52 has holes 53 which are relatively larger than the holes in mask 44 shown in FIG. 2 and larger than the desired filter pore size.
  • An exposure through mask 52 is controlled so that the hole ablation is only partial leaving recesses 46A with a bottom base 46B.
  • the partially ablated film 48 is then further ablated by inserting a second mask 54 with smaller holes 55 and completing laser ablation of holes 46.
  • This embodiment further reduces the flow resistance while maintaining the minimum pore size and maximum film thickness.
  • multiple small diameter holes could be formed within each larger, partially ablated hole or section formed by mask 52.
  • a rectangular array can produce about 25% open area and a rectangular close-packed array can produce a filter with ⁇ 50% open area.
  • Such large open area filters having small pore sizes ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ m) are advantageous over other methods in protecting against small particles entering the channels and minimizing flow impedance.

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  1. Tête d'impression à jet d'encre (10) comportant une entrée d'encre (25) dans l'une de ses surfaces, une pluralité de buses (27), des canaux individuels (20) reliant les buses (27) à un collecteur d'alimentation en encre interne (22), le collecteur (22) étant alimenté en encre par l'intermédiaire de ladite entrée d'encre (25), et des éléments chauffants pouvant faire l'objet d'un adressage sélectif (34) destinés à expulser des gouttelettes d'encre à la demande, la tête d'impression à jet d'encre améliorée comprenant :
    un filtre pratiquement plat (14) présentant des dimensions prédéterminées et étant collé de façon adhésive à la surface de la tête d'impression contenant l'entrée d'encre (25), de sorte que l'entrée d'encre entière (25) soit couverte par le filtre (14), caractérisée en ce que le filtre (14) comporte une pluralité de pores coniques (28) au travers de celui-ci formés par un procédé d'ablation au laser.
  2. Tête d'impression à jet d'encre (10) selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le collecteur (22) est collé à ladite surface de la tête d'impression par une couche adhésive (23) et le filtre (14) est formé à l'intérieur de ladite couche adhésive (23) par ablation au laser.
  3. Tête d'impression à jet d'encre selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel le filtre est un film de polymère.
  4. Tête d'impression à jet d'encre selon les revendications 1, 2 ou 3, dans laquelle le filtre est formé par ablation au laser au travers d'un masque pour former les trous coniques des pores du filtre.
  5. Procédé de fabrication d'un élément de filtre pour empêcher des contaminants de pénétrer dans une entrée d'alimentation en encre d'une tête d'impression à jet d'encre, comprenant les étapes consistant à :
    positionner un mince film de polymère dans le trajet de rayonnement de sortie d'un laser d'ablation,
    positionner un système de transmission de lumière entre le laser et le film, le système présentant un motif de transmission de lumière se conformant à la taille des trous souhaitée de l'élément de filtre, caractérisé en ce que la puissance du laser est commandée de sorte que des trous légèrement coniques soient formés dans des parties du film de polymère, les parties se conformant en taille à la taille d'un élément de filtre souhaité, et
    coller l'élément de filtre à l'entrée d'alimentation en encre.
  6. Procédé de fabrication d'un élément de filtre selon la revendication 5, comprenant en outre les étapes consistant à :
    positionner un premier masque entre le laser et le film, le masque comportant un motif de trous présentant des diamètres de trous plus grands que la taille de trou souhaitée de l'élément de filtre,
    commander la puissance du laser de sorte que des cavités légèrement coniques soient formées dans une partie du film de polymère, la partie se conformant en taille à la taille d'un élément de filtre souhaité,
    positionner un second masque entre le laser et le film, le second masque comportant un motif de trous se conformant à la taille de trou souhaitée de l'élément de filtre,
    commander la puissance du laser de sorte que le rayonnement laser soit dirigé dans ladite cavité en formant une pluralité de trous coniques au travers de la base de chaque cavité, et
    coller l'élément de filtre à l'entrée d'alimentation en encre.
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